There are TONS of music releases either recently released or soon to be released that that I’m excited and sad about. Excited for the new music, sad that I can’t afford to just go out and by all of them the day they hit stores. You can help by using these links if you plan …
Jim White Official Sites: Artist Site, MySpace, Luka Bop Label, LastFM Interviews: Comes with a Smile, Triste, Aquarium Drunkard Most recent album release: A Funny Little Cross to Bear Lyric of note: 3 A.M. I’m awakened By a sweet summer rain… Distant howling of a passing Southbound coal train. Was I dreaming or was …
I have a lot of music and I love sharing new and interesting music with people, so I’m going to start a series that will post on the first of every month called “Music You May Have Missed.” Most of the time I’ll showcase one band each month and will provide links and samples as …
Sharing some fun videos. Enjoy! An amazing film that creates an entire world, offers compelling characters, and scary action scenes and does it in a few minutes and with no dialogue: 9 Nine Shane Acker Short Animation by FrFKmeron A lovely rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on a ukelele: If you never watched …
This is an awesome archive of old films. Unfortunately they don’t allow for embedding, but check out the old time erotica, or a science fiction short from 1909 , or watch cowboys take Broadway by storm in one of John Ford’s earliest movies, or (cause you know you want to) check out some more old …
First up, the depressing news that America, land of the free and home of the brave, ranks 36th among nations for the freedom of the press: The United States is ranked 36th in the world in terms of press freedom, up from 48th last year, according to a report released Wednesday by Reporters Sans Frontieres. …
Richard Wright, the keyboardist whose somber, monumental sounds were at the core of Pink Floyd’s art-rock that has sold millions and millions of albums, died Monday in London, where he had lived. He was 65. [From Richard Wright, Member of Pink Floyd, Dies at 65 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com]
“Anathem” (Neal Stephenson) I’m currently about halfway through Stephenson’s latest book and it is an amazing, rich, thought-provoking, deeply intellectual, and engrossingly emotional novel. The kind of novel that you want to live in for a good long while. Even though I have over 400 pages to go, I’m already a bit sad that it …
I’ve been an a political kick the last couple of weeks what with all the convention folderol and elephant dung-slinging that’s been going on. But there are other parts to my life . . . like being a geek. Here’s my current desktop arrangement: (GeekTool is showing my current iTunes song, the background is “Surreal …
A great list of resources to find new and free music. Sure there’s going to be a lot of unknown artists in the mix, but there are a lot of amazing musicians you’ve never heard of. Definitely worth a look and a bookmark. In the interest of helping our readers stay out of jail and …